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It opens at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday and continues for eight shows through Dec. 17.

The story has the same characters of the mammoth hit original show, but it is not based on the writing of Gaston Leroux, who wrote the source material for Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera.” Instead, it is loosely based on a 1999 novel that’s a sort of sequel to Leroux’s novel.

It takes place some years after the original “Phantom.” Christine Daae gets an anonymous invitation to perform at Coney Island, so she travels across the ocean only to find — surprise! — that it’s her old pal the Phantom who has invited her.

It likely will appeal to “Phantom” fans, of which there are many. Others might be wise to be wary.